Whale meat!

Here I was in Yokohama, in a typical Japanese bar where my friend Yuji brought me. Along with a lot of sake, we got tofu and a plate of sashimi. For the very fist time of my life, I got whale (that's the brownish meat at the bottom of the plate). The place is expensive, but totally worth it.

The Japan experience

April 2nd 2010
Friday, April 2nd 2010 Today is the day I have been waiting forever: I finally go to Japan! I am at the San Francisco airport right now. It's 11.30am, my flight is going to be at 1.05pm. I really did not plan this vacation as much as I wanted and omitted many details. Only yesterday I went to Bank of America to change some dollars in Japanese Yen (I have 89,000 yen in my pocket, wh ... read more

Asia » Japan

In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Fol... ... read more

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